Last summer the press went on a tour of the Avengers: Age of Ultron set. The
usual embargo was put in place an all comments and interviews made at the time
have slowly began to come out. A few days one such interview hit the web and
spread like wildfire. There director Joss Whedon talked about prevalent misogyny
in the film industry and the lack of female led superhero films.
Since the time he made the comments and the time they came out, something's
have changed, not a lot mind you, but two female led superhero movies have been
greenlit by both DC (Wonder Woman), and Marvel (Captain Marvel).
Now to clarify his comments, Whedon decided to speak to Buzzfeed and set
the record straight.
"I just thought, I sounded very
harsh," Whedon said. "And then
[Marvel announced], ‘We’re going to make Captain Marvel. We’re going to make Black
Panther. We’re going to shake it up.’ I was just like, great! Now I just sound
mean and bitter. But, you know, there’s a lot to be mean and bitter about."
Whedon has been not only a supporter
of the empowerment of women in the industry but also an active participant,
just look at Buffy, Firefly, Serenity, and Dollhouse, where female characters
have just as much power if not more than men.
The director also shook up the web
when he revealed that perhaps his time at the head of Marvel's biggest
franchise, The Avengers was coming to an end. Does this slip of the tongue and
his comments on female led superhero films lead us to him directing the Captain
Marvel standalone film?
"Um, I would
never rule anything out, because I like working here. By
the same token, the biggest thing for me is that I need to do something that I
create myself. It’s been way too long since I created a universe."
The last non-Marvel project Whedon
directed was done after The Avengers and was the loose adaptation of William
Shakespeare play, Much Ado About Nothing, starring much of his usual suspects
like Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion, Clark Gregg, and Sean Maher. However
Whedon's reason to stay away from Captain Marvel seem to be more than just him
wanting to do his own thing.
"Captain Marvel I
don’t know as well," Whedon confessed. "There have been a few
[versions] of her. I have the first issue of Ms. Marvel, back
when she was that, and had the Farrah hair. My only issue with her is that she always
felt sort of on top. She was very driven. A winner. I always like to dig into
the soil of things to find my heroes, if I can."
However, Whedon believes that the
reason why Marvel decided to pursuit a female led superhero film is in part because
of James Gunn's stupendous Guardians of the Galaxy and the success it was able
to achieve not only critically, but also at the box-office.
"Honestly,
you know, Guardians [of the Galaxy] might have helped
it," Whedon stated. "Just because that was outside what was
considered to be their box and did so well that — Well, let’s put
it this way: If a raccoon can carry a movie, then they believe maybe even a
woman can."
What do you think?
Source - Buzzfeed
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